Welcome, and feel free to introduce yourself

[benmc]

Hi Zane and welcome

(from a fellow NZer)

[Kooltrade]

Awesome thank you

[Goro_Daimon]

Hi guys! I come from Brazil, but Goro Daimon is from Osaka Japan.

[benmc]

hi Goro Daimon,

and Welcome to Mageia

[thealio]

Hi everyone

I'm a brand new Mageia user, it's becoming one on my favorite distros .

I currently use as a daily Artix & Arch on my machines , then I also use Devuan and Void .

I put Mageia alongside those good distros, because I think it's very good .

You can check my dotfiles , I'm planning to add some stuff on the classid-de repo for Mageia

https://codeberg.org/thealio

[benmc]

Hi thealio ,

Welcome to Mageia.
I hope that you continue to like Mageia.

For me, it stays out of my way and just lets me get stuff done.

Cheers.

[brianm]

Thanks for the welcome. I live in New Zealand. After a long absence from Linux I bought an older laptop with good specs and dedicated the whole drive to an install of Mageia 9 which is working flawlessly. Some history: after an early Red Hat distro I swiched to Mandrake, then Mandriva, then Mageia when the distro forked. I have always used KDE because it is so polished. I have forgotten most of the Konsole commands but this will come back. Mageia 9 is a long way from the early models and I look forward to using it. Merci

[morgano]

Welcome brianm.
Writing this I just realise I have been using Mageia 19 years as my main OS. (beginning with Mandriva 2006)
Yes, why move from here

[Germ]

Hi brianm. Welcome!

[marast78]

I've always used only RPM based distros, with an experiment here and there. Suzie was the first serious one I used as the main OS, it was Mandrake after that, then Mandriva and the for some years Fedora. Mageia these days. Unlike the majority though, I prefer Gnome and Openbox.

Good time to join, because I think that since M10 takes so long, it will be the new best release ever, after Mandriva 2008.1 of course.

[crouton]

Hi everyone,

I’m glad to be joining here and diving into Mageia. I remember having Mageia 1 on my laptop years ago and it was a really pleasant experience. Over the last few years I’ve usually migrated between Solus and openSUSE, but I’ve really been enjoying my time on Mageia lately, and I’m hoping I’ll stay for a long while.

I’ll probably be one of the few who’ll be a little sad when Mageia 10 arrives, because I’ve been loving my time on GNOME 44, it'll be sad to see it go.

Looking forward to being part of the community!

[Germ]

Welcome!

Mageia 10 will have Gnome 44. It's in Cauldron now.

[benmc]

Hi crouton , and welcome (back) to Mageia.

Hopefully Mageia will be truthful to your fond memories of Mageia 1.


regards

[marast78]

Welcome!

Mageia 10 will have Gnome 44. It's in Cauldron now.

From what I checked, it has dev version of 50.0 (49 something) and 50.0 should happen upstream somewhere in the middle of March 2026.
I don't think Mageia will be released any sooner than that, to have an official release with a dev version of a major DE.

[isadora]

For all those newcomers or returnees, Mageia is in great need of volunteers who can spend some time.
The array of choices to participate is huge, please have a read, and rethink, how you could be also part of Mageia, being the distribution for now and for the long future.
https://www.mageia.org/en-gb/contribute

[johnspack]

Hi, been using linux for years now. First Kubuntu, then finally Arch. I also play with Opensuse, Freebsd and Fedora. I like to check out different distros to see what they offer. Wasn't sure what Mageia was, so I threw it in a VM.
Once I found dnf in it I realized it's related to RHEL. I was impressed by the serious multimedia support Didn't realize it came from Mandrake, which I remember from years ago. This one might be going on raw next to my
Arch installs.

[Germ]

Welcome!

[pabloprofe]

Hello, my name is Pablo and I'm from Uruguay. I've been using Linux since the 90s, and the first distribution I installed and loved was Mandrake, thanks to its graphical interface and fantastic control center. Today, I'm a computer programmer and a user of several distributions, always keeping Mageia on one of my work machines because of its stability, ease of use, and performance. I also have a website and YouTube channel where I regularly talk about Mageia and publish configuration tutorials. I also see it as a way to contribute to this great Linux distribution, which is community-driven and maintained thanks to everyone's support. My website is https://www.planetatecno.com.uy if you'd like to see the posts and videos. Greetings to everyone, and thank you for the great teamwork that is Mageia.

[Germ]

Welcome Pablo!